A bold forecast calls for silver to open tomorrow at $100 and surge to all-time highs as momentum builds across hard assets, according to Rich Dad Poor Dad author Robert Kiyosaki.

Welcome to Latam Insights, a compilation of the most relevant crypto news from Latin America over the past week. In this week’s edition, Polymarket traders win big on Maduro’s downfall, Bitfarms leaves Latam, and Argentina enters 2026 with high crypto adoption levels.

Bitcoin’s spot value hovered at $91,219 on Jan. 4, 2025, and the derivatives market appears anything but relaxed. Futures and options positioning across major venues shows traders leaning in, not backing away, with open interest holding near cycle highs and options contracts stacking up around key strike levels.

Dormant bitcoin addresses collectively moved 123,852.58 BTC in 2025—now worth more than $11 billion—while over 1,000 long-idle wallets stirred back to life during the year. Figures from Btcparser indicate that this activity clustered heavily around wallets created more than ten years ago, with a clear tilt toward bitcoin’s earliest adoption era.

The mining company reported that it had entered into a purchase agreement with the Sympatheia Power Fund (SPF) to sell its Paso Pe mining site in Paraguay. The move marks Bitfarms’ exit from Latam and its reconfiguration to become a company using 100% North American power.

The decentralized autonomous token narrative of 2025 marked the evolution of AI agents from simple chatbots with wallets into autonomous economic actors. As the market shifts into 2026, analysts expect a flight to quality toward agents delivering real-world utility.

Blackrock is cementing bitcoin’s institutional ascent as its spot ETF amasses roughly 771K BTC, while CEO Larry Fink outlines a path where global adoption could drive bitcoin toward $700,000.

Throughout 2025, Rich Dad Poor Dad author Robert Kiyosaki warned that a historic market crash was unfolding, while highlighting bitcoin’s rising role as an alternative asset amid debt, debasement, and weakening trust in fiat systems.

Silver’s explosive rally is flashing bubble warnings in quantitative models, but Societe Generale says those signals may reflect volatility and structure rather than an imminent reversal, as fundamentals continue to support higher prices.

A U.S. military operation removed Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro from power early Jan. 3, 2026, abruptly resolving a series of high-profile Polymarket prediction markets that had been tracking his potential exit for months. Within hours of the announcement, contracts tied to Maduro’s removal closed at full value, triggering large payouts for traders who had wagered on an outcome most had viewed as unlikely just days earlier.

In its end-of-year outlook, Coinbase Ventures outlines the sectors it believes will define crypto’s next growth phase in 2026, spanning real-world asset trading, next-generation DeFi, advanced market structure, and the intersection of AI, robotics, and blockchain infrastructure.

As 2025 wrapped up, Ethereum rewrote its own history book, posting the highest single-day transaction count ever on Dec. 29, 2025, when 2.23 million transfers cleared the chain. The pace didn’t cool off either, with Dec. 31, Dec. 30, and even figures logged on Jan. 2, 2026, all brushing up against record-setting daily transfer levels.

Seventeen years after Satoshi Nakamoto mined Bitcoin’s genesis block, the once-obscure experiment has grown into a global financial force that has reshaped markets, challenged policymakers, and captured the world’s attention in ways few could have imagined on Jan. 3, 2009.

With bitcoin priced at $89,907, boasting a market cap of $1.79 trillion and a brisk 24-hour trading volume of $45.09 billion, it’s clear the crypto king isn’t napping. But despite an intraday range between $88,532 and $90,788, the charts paint a picture less of a breakout bonanza and more of a waiting game with attitude.

The number is taken from a mid-2025 report by Chainalysis, remarking on the reach and potential of cryptocurrencies in Argentina. While the initial use case of crypto was related to stablecoins and preserving purchasing value, analysts claim this is also evolving.